Nearly 40 firms, including Nvidia and IBM, launched a cyber-defense alliance after OpenAI's model breached Hugging Face, while OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta sat out. The EU AI Act's Article 50 took effect on August 2, with AI disclosure fines up to €15 million. OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's price by 80% under pressure from Chinese models, which now hold 46% of U.S. enterprise token usage. The 80% drop for GPT-5.6 Luna brings it to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output, while GPT-5.6 Terra saw a 20% drop to $2/$12, and GPT-5.6 Sol gets Fast mode in the API, up to 2.5x the speed for 2x the price. Mark Zuckerberg's July 28 Wall Street Journal op-ed argued that superintelligence should reach everyone, the same day more than 1,100 employees at frontier labs published "Pacing the Frontier," asking Washington to build tools for a coordinated AI pause. Signatories include Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, and Meta AI Chief Scientist Shengjia Zhao, who signed in a personal capacity. Media analyst John Battelle noted the op-ed favors Meta's business model, since spreading superintelligence widely commoditizes the base-model layer that OpenAI and Anthropic